Re: Some (small) problems

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Robert Elz wrote:

> > 3. I lost my .shrc, and now I can't get my PS1 to work. I think I used
> > to use this:
> > --
> > PS1='[$( pwd | sed "s,^$HOME,~," )]; '    # which is [~]; when at home
> > --
> > but now it doesn't work.
>
> It should, there is nothing in the processing of that which cares about
> whether sh is dynamically linked or not.
>
> However, because you have a command substitution in there, you also
> need
> 	set -o promptcmds
> or sh will refuse to execute it (since PS1 can be imported from the
> environ).

I should've expanded on "doesn't work".

promptcmds is set. If PS1 from above is used, the prompt becomes the 
following:
--
[$( pwd | sed "s,^$HOME,~," )];
--

When entering a command:
--
[$( pwd | sed "s,^$HOME,~," )]; cat file.txt
[$( pwd | sed "s,^$HOME,~," )];     # no output is displayed
[`contents of file.txt`];    # command output goes inside when I press 
^D
--

I need to press ^D multiple times to exit the shell until all output 
from
entered commands is gone through the prompt.

Other than some aliases and variables my /etc/profile, /etc/shrc, 
.profile and
.shrc don't contain anything.

The same configuration* works for mksh though.

* you need to comment out `set -o promptcmds` since mksh doesn't have it

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